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James Rodgers Granted Hardship Year for Oregon State

January 05, 2011   Michelle Smith   No comments

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James RodgersJames Rodgers will be eligible to play for a fifth season after he was granted a medical hardship from the Pac-10, per NCAA rules.

The Oregon State wide receiver, who has played alongside his brother Jacquizz as the Beavers’ top offensive tandem, was lost for the season with a knee injury on Oct. 9.

Rodgers holds Oregon State’s single-season record for receptions with 91 in the 2009 season. He is also the school’s career leader in all-purpose yardage at 5,784 yards.

He was a preseason All-American in the fall before his injury.

Rodgers qualified for a medical hardship under NCAA rules that a student-athlete is eligible if he has participated in a maximum 30 percent of the scheduled games (the NCAA rounds up the total to four games). Rodgers played in four games last year, missing one other with a concussion.

 

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Five-Step Drop: Fit for a Prince

December 09, 2010   Mark Hasty   No comments

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Prince AmukamaraFanHouse’s college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day.

1. A considerable percentage of college football players get their start in Pop Warner leagues. This year, for the first time, Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc. gave an award to the most outstanding Pop Warner alumnus in college football. The inaugural winner of the Pop Warner National College Football Award is Nebraska cornerback Prince Amukamara. He is also one of three finalists for the Jim Thorpe Award, given to college football’s most outstanding defensive back.

2. Oregon State’s season was a big heap of frustration for all involved as the team never quite seemed to make all the pieces fit. Running back Jacquizz Rodgers was a standout on the team and was widely expected to declare for the NFL draft. Reports on Wednesday said he was staying, but late Wednesday afternoon OSU head coach Mike Riley said Rodgers would submit his name to the NFL for evaluation of his draft potential. That move doesn’t obligate Rodgers to enter the draft and doesn’t affect his eligibility in the slightest.

 

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Oregon State Has a Chance to Shake Up National Picture With Upset of Oregon

December 04, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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The question isn’t whether “little brother” can handle the big time. Been there, done that already this season. The question is whether ‘little brother” can pull off the big upset.

Oregon State is “little brother” in this scenario, handed the new moniker earlier this week by Oregon cornerback Cliff Harris.

And at least publicly, the Beavers have managed not to take too much umbrage. Given the set-up of Saturday’s Civil War game in Corvallis against the top-ranked Oregon Ducks, how much of an argument could they really put up?

The Beavers are simultaneously in a spot and in the spotlight. Mike Riley’s team sits at 5-6, in need of one more win for a bowl game.

They need to shake up the entire landscape of college football to get it.

 

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Pac-10 Report: The Season Has Been Rough on Quarterbacks

November 24, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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It started as the Year of the Quarterback in the Pac-10, the conference feeling pretty good about its collective of talented passers.

Instead, It has turned out to be a rough year to be a quarterback in the Pac-10.

Eight starting quarterbacks have been knocked out of games this season.

Three quarterbacks — two starters, Cal’s Kevin Riley and UCLA‘s Kevin Prince and Oregon’s No. 2 Nate Costa — have been knocked out for the season with knee injuries.

Arizona’s Nick Foles and Washington’s Jake Locker have missed games because of injuries. Foles’ backup Matt Scott was injured as well.

Oregon’s Darron Thomas and Arizona State’s Steven Threet were knocked out of games, only to return the following week.

And the hits keep coming.

 

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Pac-10 Report: Are Opponents Faking Injuries to Slow Down Oregon?

November 17, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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Oregon has seen it many times already this season.

The Ducks’ high-speed offense is rolling along at its standard blistering pace until … a player from the other team goes down with an injury, stopping play, stopping momentum.

Trainers come out, everybody waits as the player is taken off the field and the Ducks don’t get to play so fast after all.

Now the Ducks, they don’t want to say that anybody is faking … they’ll leave that to their fans and television commentators and bloggers. But they won’t say that they are not faking either.

Cal is the latest Pac-10 team to be the target of such soccer-esque accusations.

“If the league wants to look into stuff like that, that’s their prerogative. It’s not coming from me,” Ducks coach Chip Kelly said Tuesday. “I hear the boos sometimes when I’m calling plays, but I’m not sure what they are booing.”

Coy is not a look that works on Kelly very convincingly. It certainly doesn’t work on game day.

 

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Pac-10 Report: What’s Been Big Thus Far During the 2010 Season?

October 20, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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It’s halfway through the 2010 college football season, and big things are happening in the Pac-10.

Five of the conference’s teams have been in the rankings at some point during the season. Two teams have been in the top 10, three in the top 15. Pac-10 football is a national story on more than one front.

For the first time in school history, Oregon sits at No. 1 in the AP and coaches’ polls. The Sagarin Ratings rank the Pac-10 as the top conference in the country, and on Thursday, commissioner Larry Scott will outline the groundwork for next year’s Pac-12. Divisions for football, a conference championship game, revenue-sharing, it will all be unveiled.

Reports indicate the conference will be split geographically for football with North and South divisions — the Oregon, Washington and Bay Area schools in the North and the L.A schools matched with the Arizonas and Colorado and Utah in the South.

But that’s jumping ahead in the story a bit. There are still a couple of months left in the most compelling, competitive Pac-10 season in recent memory.

Here’s a look at who is coming up “big” at the midpoint.

 

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Oregon State Has Fallen Off Radar, but Beavers Aren’t Out of Pac-10 Picture

October 16, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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Oregon State lurks in the Pac-10.

The Beavers don’t stand out in the way that Oregon does with its gaudy offensive numbers and its dominant performances. They don’t have the cult of personality that Stanford has with Jim Harbaugh and new YouTube star Andrew Luck.

They aren’t even as compelling a story as the fallen Trojans at USC or the roller-coaster riders at UCLA.

Nope, No. 24 Oregon State truly is a sleeper, a team that will sit in the shadows until the final couple weeks of the season and then perhaps determine the course of the entire conference.

The Beavers (3-2, 2-0) opened the season against TCU and Boise State in the first three weeks. They were competitive in both games against top five teams, on the road, under a national spotlight. They are 2-0 in the Pac-10 for the first time since 2003.

 

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Pac-10 Report: No ‘Deal’ for Stanford, USC in Saturday’s Encounter

October 06, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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“What’s your deal?” Or no deal?

Looks like no deal for Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh and USC coach Lane Kiffin.

Any hope that the two coaches might take some verbal swings at one another headed into Saturday’s game at Stanford Stadium probably evaporated last Saturday when both teams experienced tough losses — the Cardinal falling at Oregon and the Trojans being upset in Los Angeles by Washington.

By Tuesday, neither coach was biting on questions about last year’s mid-field confrontation between Harbaugh and then-USC coach Pete Carroll.

 

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Five-Step Drop: UCLA Zigs, Texas Zags

September 28, 2010   Brian Grummell   No comments

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1. UCLA’s unexpected, thorough romp over Texas Saturday was stunning on several fronts. Just weeks prior, the Bruins had been humiliated by Pac-10 foe Stanford before a frustrated home crowd. Yet there the Bruins were, three arduous years into the Rick Neuheisel experiment when something may have finally clicked.

Rallying behind yet another rebuilt and questionable offensive line, UCLA beat Texas into submission thanks to 264 rushing yards.

The Longhorns simply had no answer to the Bruins’ “Pistol” offense, which had been laughed at all preseason and into the regular season. Credit is due to offensive coordinator Norm Chow who rolled some major dice in breaking with his own offensive philosophy as well as that of coach Neuheisel’s pro-style approach.

It doesn’t hurt that the Pistol hasn’t taken over quite as well as the spread — yet. Wrote ESPN’s Bruce Feldman, “the inside word on the Pistol is that if a defense hasn’t really seen it, it has no clue how to cope with the scheme.”

A classic case of if you zig, I zag. It’s simple, but in a game where so many coaches choose to do the same thing, there’s always going to be some success at the margins for those doing things just a little bit different.

 

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Oregon State Paints It Blue to Prepare for Trip to Boise State

September 22, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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Four hundred and forty gallons of paint — a white primer coat followed by a layer or two of blue — were sprayed on to the practice fields at Oregon State on Monday.

Home Makeover in Corvallis? No. Just some temporary redecorating in the name of experience, acclimation and a little media coverage for the No. 24 Beavers, who will be in Boise on Saturday night to take on No. 3 Boise State on the Broncos’ distinctive home field in a game viewed as the last, best chance to knock the Broncos off their national championship track.

Head coach Mike Riley said athletic director Bob de Carolis has been cooking up the plan for more than a year.

“I think he was hoping for the build-up that this game has become, with them where they are and us being ranked,” Riley said.

 

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